(The Center Square) – In another policy reversal, Vice President Kamala Harris says she now supports building a border wall after she and President Joe Biden opposed doing so for nearly four years and she vehemently opposed it while she was a U.S. senator.
The majority of Americans polled don’t believe her, with only 32% saying she’s been consistent on the issue of immigration, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll.
Harris continues to claim in remarks that she’d sign a Senate border bill into law, which went nowhere in the Democrat-controlled Senate, that allocates $650 million to border wall construction.
This is after the Biden-Harris administration halted border wall construction in January 2021 and has been fighting a lawsuit against Texas over it ever since, only recently losing in federal court. The administration has fought dozens of lawsuits over border policies against half of the U.S. states, many led by Texas.
While the Senate bill was being negotiated, Harris, Biden’s designated “border czar,” wasn’t involved, according to multiple news reports.
Harris has long openly opposed border wall construction.
After joining the U.S. Senate, in April 2017, she said former President Donald Trump’s border wall was a “stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it.”
In April 2018, Harris urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to reject Trump’s fiscal 2019 funding request to build a “costly and ineffective border wall,” hire new Border Patrol agents, and more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel.
She urged the committee to “reduce funding for the administration’s reckless immigration enforcement operations,” including reducing funding for beds in the federal immigration detention system, which agents argue is critical to holding the most violent criminals before deporting them.
Harris has more than once called for abolishing ICE, The Center Square reported.
She also strongly urged the committee “to reject any funding for President Trump’s border wall,” saying “a wall, in fact, would do little to aid federal drug interdiction efforts.”
When she first ran for president in 2019, she described Trump’s border wall as a “medieval vanity project.” As vice president, in February 2020, she posted on Facebook, “Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.”
Multiple news outlets recently called out Harris for her policy reversal. “It’s the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking – proposals that aides say she now is against,” Axios reported.
One USA Today columnist said she thought Harris’ claim was from The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, “but it wasn’t satire.” Harris “decided she supports one of former President Donald Trump’s signature ideas − and one despised by progressives.”
CNN’s KFile Investigates searched through Harris social media posts from 2017 and found that she criticized Trump’s wall more than 50 times, referring to it as “stupid” and “useless.”
In a campaign ad, Harris claimed to prosecute Mexican cartels and fight border crime but was lambasted by California sheriffs saying they didn’t support her. An image of the border wall was prominently displayed in the ad. But it was a section that Trump built, CNN reported, “in Sasabe, Arizona, in an area where there had not previously been border wall. The other walls feature signs that they were Trump-era walls, such as so-called anti-climbing plates that were built during the Trump years.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has argued if Harris or Biden were serious about border security, they’d drop their fight with Texas in multiple border-related lawsuits including three before the Fifth Circuit. The administration is still trying to halt Texas’s border security law, SB 4, and halt Texas’ construction of concertina wire and marine barriers.
Harris would also reimburse Texas the roughly $12 billion Texas taxpayers have paid for border security efforts through Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and respond to his invitations to come to the border and see the crisis for herself, Abbott has argued.
Within months of the Biden-Harris administration halting border wall construction, Abbott announced Texas would build its own border wall in June 2021. By December 2021, construction began on state land in Rio Grande City.
Texas’ wall is steel and constructed similarly to the Trump wall. The first part was built and erected by a local Texas company, McAllen Strong Steel.
Unlike the federal government, which left millions of dollars of steel on the ground to rust, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, Texas construction was implemented in record time and with accountability, state officials argue. Texas Facilities Commission Chair Steven Alvis said operations that would have normally taken two-to-three months took two-to-three days because of Texas ingenuity and hard work, The Center Square reported.
On Sunday, Abbott posted a video of ongoing Texas border wall construction in Maverick County, saying, “Texas is fighting on the frontlines of the Biden-Harris border crisis.”
Before Labor Day, he posted a video of border wall construction in Starr County, saying, “Texas is the ONLY state in U.S. history to build our own border wall. We will protect Texans and Americans from the unprecedented surge of illegal immigration.”
In another policy reversal, Vice President Kamala Harris says she now supports building a border
Shameless Clown….
SHE may ‘support it’ BUT WILL SHE EVER BE able to get it through the liberal congres?
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this Lying, destructive, corrupt, treasonous, dishonest, unethical self-serving Kamala Harris know no bounds.
The treasonous Kamala Harris will say Anything to get elected. Then deny that she ever said it and certainly not follow through with her LIES.
It is amazing that there are so many Democrat Party’s “useful Idiots” who would rather destroy our country than to vote for patriot Donald Trump. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Polecat vs Kamala POLLcat
Polecat – a weasel-like Eurasian mammal (genus Mustela, family Mustelidae) with mainly dark brown fur and a darker mask across the eyes, noted for ejecting a fetid fluid when threatened.
Kamala POLLcat – a weaseling Jamaican Indo-African mammary with mainly dark fur, artificially dyed straightened hair and un-straightened integrity, who masks her true intentions, noted for injecting hate and venom into political dialogues to bite and tear down others to elevate her own self-esteem.
In the United States, the term polecat is sometimes applied to the black-footed ferret, a native member of the Mustelinae. In Southern United States dialect, the term polecat is sometimes used as a colloquial nickname for the skunk, and also describe multi-colored striped POLLcat politicians who can only whine and scratch their way to the top over the bodies of life producing candidates like Trump. When caught in a debate and she can’t just say it, she just sprays it.
Pity we can’t deport THEM!
A FENCE – American Poet Carl Sandburg
Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
workmen are beginning the fence.
The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.
As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut off the rabble
and all vagabonds and hungry men and all wandering
children looking for a place to play.
Passing through the bars and over the steel points will go
nothing except Death and the Rain and To-morrow.
We should have listened to his warnings, and kept out the Biden/Harris welcomed Death, Human trafficking,Drugs and social delirium.
Robert Frost said “Good fences make Good Neighbors” It applies to neighborhoods as well as National borders. Those who respect others will in turn be respected. It is those who have NO respect for you or themselves that need to be fenced out,,, first THROWN OUT of office, and then their illegal potential anarchy
loving voters out of the country. Just what is it about the word ILLEGAL they do not understand?, Or willingly seek to redefine to their own political advantage? Enter our joy filled gay enabling Kama, Kama, Kama, Kamal Camel Comedian.
Like our missing border walls,,Seeing is believing, but who can find Kamala??? Let alone believe her?
Of course I don’t believe her. She’s a demoncratic politician. And that means she’s a lier, prevaricator, equivocator. I’ll stop there. You get the idea.
SHE’s democrat. IF THEY ARE NOT lying, they’re not speaking!
As Rayman said: “Of course I don’t believe her. She’s a demoncratic politician. And that means she’s a (liar), prevaricator, equivocator.”
Look, Nancy Pelosi said the quiet part out loud on two significant occasions:
When she told America when they were trying to pass Obamacare that you “…have to vote for it before you can know what’s in it.” That has become the open policy of the Progressive Lib Woke Wonks ever since, and is how they plan to try and finesse, and/or even cheat Harris into the White House.
Why change a plan that has worked so well before?
The second time was when she was complaining about how Trump was trying with such determination to carry out what he promised America he would do once in office. She said on the floor of Congress with derisive and dismissive candor about actually following through with what he told the American people by saying “…they were only campaign promises.”
So with even just those two insights into the minds of Progressive Lib Woke Wonks, does it surprise you Kamala avoids direct actual press transparency, and that she is supposedly changing her mind on personal long held political beliefs?
Kamala Harris is a Democrat, A modern Democrat. Which means, bottom line, she has no integrity. She is a con man, and a straight up liar, and will say and do what ever she has to say and do to win.
Wall won’t stop people from coming anyway. Policy change, repair to damaged relations with the South American countries will have to be prioritized. Going to take some time also. Build it , whoever, if you want to but it wont matter.
Maybe a wall won’t stop all of them from coming, but what was already built made a substantial difference in how many successfully crossed in illegally.
And Trump wasn’t depending on the wall to be a singular defense, but as part of an overall policy that also included making Mexico protect its Southern Boarder, a much smaller boarder, and was responsible to keep illegals on the Mexican side to be dealt with in a more manageable manner.
And it was working, reducing illegal crossings to a decades old low levels. Estimated illegal crossings were less in a year than Biden’s boarder policy debacle of open to anyone were incurring in a month, and dropping.
If he had won re-election in 2020, the wall would have been completed, Boarder Patrols would have been dedicated to patrolling the boarder. ICE would have been dedicated to rounding up illegals who did manage to sneak in and deport them back to where they came from. And countries like Venezuela would not have been inspired to empty their prisons and direct them to Our Country, thus reducing violent crime for themselves and increasing violent crimes for Us.
And that is but one way Trump would have made us safer, and increase Our prosperity. We can only hope that Biden/Harris haven’t screwed the Country beyond the ability of Trump to correct it.
SO By that logic, CRIMINALS WILL KEEP DOING crimes, no matter what laws we have.. SO lets do away with courts, judges, jails and cops.
AFTER all if they’re just going to keep committing crimes, WHY BOTHER “Wasting” funds, trying to prevent them/catch them afterwards and punish them…
Well countered, ltuser, right to the point.
ITs the same i;ve asked at two town halls, regarding liberal judges/da’s.
WHY HAVE lawmakers, when DEMS REFUSE TO enforce the already existing laws?